Dubbed the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, the new building is bounded by Central Park West and Columbus Avenue between West 81st and 77th streets. Its design comes courtesy of Studio Gang Architects, who have envisioned an undulating exterior and interior resembling a combination of futuristic form and geological formation. Though the facade couldn’t be more different than the one for the adjoining building, it will be clad in traditional granite to fit into the existing street front.

The plan also calls for a reworking of the public spaces, including Theodore Roosevelt Park.

Howard Halle is the Editor-at-large for Time Out New York as well as Chief Art Critic and Editor of the Art section. He joined TONY on August 1, 1995 as part of the staff at the launch of the magazine and has worked here since.

He taught 20th-century art history at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C. before moving to NYC in 1981 to serve as the Curator for the The Gallery and Performance Art program at The Kitchen, one of the city's oldest non-profit arts centers. Additionally, he organized exhibitions at galleries and other institutional venues, including the Centre George Pompidou in Paris. Before coming to Time Out, he was Assistant Art Editor at Grand Street, an arts and literary quarterly.

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What they didn't tell you is that the museum is annexing public parkland from Theodore Roosevelt Park and that the city has given the museum over 100 million dollars of your taxpayer money towards the project. All the local politicians have signed off on the expansion before the community was notified of the new building. Join Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park (saveourpark.nyc) and oppose the taking of public parkland.